Adult specific assignment relating to the use of health promotion in the acute setting

... Throughout this assignment the author will consider the health promotion opportunities, and the nurses' role within health promotion. In relation to women aged twenty to twenty-four who have undergone a surgical termination of an unwanted pregnancy, which was not the result of rape or sexual abuse. This will be achieved by defining the terms, termination of pregnancy and health promotion. The statistical data will be examined, recent trends identified, and legal aspects discussed. The nurses' role within health promotion and the ethical implications will be identified, before going on to critique two models used to deliver health promotion, with the most appropriate being employed to demonstrate health promotion strategies and activities. A termination of pregnancy can is defined as "the purposeful interruption of an intrauterine pregnancy with the intention of not giving birth to a liveborn infant" (Koch & Waterstraat, 2000, p90). Women have had the right to terminate pregnancy since

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